Book description
The novel is set in the Sixties: "It is the heady days of 1960s South Africa, with Nelson Mandela in hiding from the apartheid government's security forces. For Dumisa Gumeda, a herd boy and budding Don Juan, Mandela is the stuff of a legend: a big-shot lawyer who talks back to white magistrates and single-handedly wages the great fight for his people's freedom."

Reviews
This work "disturbs boundaries between biography, history and fiction, engaging directly with national myth." (Mail and Guardian, 7 July 2006)
"Lewis Nkosi is one of the giants of South African literature, one of the last survivors of the Sophiatown set of Drum writers, whose works straddles the time line from apartheid to today." (The Weekender, 8-9 July 2006)